Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Estonia and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1964 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1970 at the first Onyeabor practice in a loft in Enugu.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Ossler to the punk kids.
I played it at Trash.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by Mantronix. All the underground hits.
All Isaac Hayes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Aural Exciters record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Magazine record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Icehouse,
Neu!,
48th St. Collective,
Rufus Thomas,
Massinfluence,
Ohio Players,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Janne Schatter,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Second Layer,
Ludus,
The Trojans,
Piero Umiliani,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Black Moon,
Black Bananas,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Cybotron,
Roxy Music,
Minor Threat,
Curtis Mayfield,
Thompson Twins,
Man Parrish,
The Gun Club,
Jeff Lynne,
Skarface,
Ken Boothe,
Nik Kershaw,
Delon & Dalcan,
Soul II Soul,
Slave,
Wolf Eyes,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Fatback Band,
Joyce Sims,
the Fania All-Stars,
Deadbeat,
Davy DMX,
Brick,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Rapeman,
The Modern Lovers,
The Zeros,
Matthew Bourne,
The Sound,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Red Krayola,
Slick Rick,
Robert Wyatt,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Seeds,
The Fuzztones,
Peter & Gordon,
Kerrie Biddell,
Anthony Braxton,
Boz Scaggs,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Toni Rubio,
B.T. Express,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap, Gary Puckett & The Union Gap, Gary Puckett & The Union Gap, Gary Puckett & The Union Gap.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.